Sylvia / Leonard Michaels ; introduction by Diane Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaels, Leonard, 1933-2003.

Series:

FSG classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Marriage--Fiction.

Marriage.

Nineteen sixties--Fiction.

Nineteen sixties.

Autobiographical fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 129 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, "Sylvia "draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence. Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.

ISBN:

9780374271077

0374271070

OCLC:

143640302